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Fish Fauna and Guild Compositions in Geum River Watershed  

Lee, Eui-Haeng (Department of Biology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Hyun-Mac (Department of Biology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Jae-Kwan (Water Quality Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Byeon, Myeong-Seop (Water Quality Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
An, Kwang-Guk (Department of Biology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment / v.41, no.4, 2008 , pp. 490-498 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was to analyze fish composition and ecological indicator characteristics from eight sampling sites of Geum River, October 2007. Total number of family and species sampled were 9 and 40. The most dominant family was Cyprinidae (27 species, 85%), and then followed by Cobitidae, Odomtobutidae, and Gobiidae. Constancy values of Zacco platypus and Zacco temminckii were 1.00 and 0.30, respectively, and the relative abundance of Acheilognathus koreensis and Pseudogobio esocinus were greater than 5% of the total. The number of Korean endemic species sampled in this Geum River study was 7 family 19 species, which is 47.5% of total 40 species, and endangered species of Pseudopungtungia nigra and Gobiobotia brevibarba were only 0.5% of the total and these species were only distributed within the upstream regions. Exotic species, Micropterus salmoides, which is known as large-mouth bass, were observed in two sites of G3 and G7. Analytical results of fish community showed that community dominance index was 0.19, which is low, and the species evenness index (0.74), diversity index (2.03), and richness index (3.00) appeared high. These results indicate that structure of fish community is stable in the Geum River. According to various guilds analysis, the relative abundance of tolerant and omnivores at all sites were 40% and 47% of the total, respectively. This monitoring data may contribute changes of fish fauna and compositions in relation to habitat modifications and chemical water quality degradations in the future.
Keywords
Geum River; fish composition; fish community; tolerance and trophic guilds;
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